Hello,
That's quite an impressive set of articles needing illustrations, I hadn't
realised there would be so many. How many are there exactly? There's
certainly scope for some kind of initiative to whittle them down.
As WMUK is mentioned on the project page I thought it might be worth
providing a viewpoint on it. If we were to support it, by providing prizes
for example, the contest would need to tie into the charity's strategic
framework
<https://wikimedia.org.uk/w/images/1/10/Strategic_Framework_2016-19_%28finalised%29.pdf>.
In which case the contest might need more development.
It's not clear whether people are being asked to upload their own
photographs or add images already on Commons, or whether both approaches
would be allowed. Since the goal is to reduce the number of articles
without pictures, there is the WDFIST tool
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/wdfist/> which can search for images in use
through Wikidata and FIST <https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/fist.php> which
can search for images on the likes of Flickr and Geograph. Magnus Manske
has left a few links on the talk page to help shorten the list.
The ease of judging depends on how many entries there are. If this gained
momentum it might be possible to end up with thousands of images in which
case there would need to be a way to share the judging load.
If people are being asked to take their own photos, October and November
are not the best months for photography. By the end of November you are
down to a little over 8 hours of daylight, the sun will be rather low for a
good portion of that, and the weather will be, well, British. In which case
another time of year would be preferable. That would also allow some clear
water between Wiki Loves Monuments UK and another kind of photography
contest.
If this was to take place around May or June it would allow more time for
planning and getting some easy wins with the Free Image Search Tools. This
might also open up the possibility of piggy backing Wiki Loves Earth if
there is a large proportion of natural sites left.
Richard
On 18 August 2016 at 09:29, WereSpielChequers <werespielchequers(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Dear all,
As a result of discussions at last Sunday's London meetup, and to take
advantage of a list created by Rich Farmbrough, I have started drafting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_United_
Kingdom/photography_contest_2016
It hath a talkpage.
Hopefully we can finalise in the next three weeks and launch at the next
London Meetup
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/London/110
Apologies to any non Londoners who object to a London event planning
anything for the whole of the UK, but only the first draft emerged from the
meetup and things are yet changeable.
WSC
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